After the Summit

Editorial
After the Summit

Published: February 25, 2010

An author of this editoral is anonymous so his/her credibility isn't very high. Author's intended audience is Americans and he/she favors President Obama's health care reform and strongly support it. He/she argues that Americans need to look at their relentlessly rising premiums or think about where they can get coverage if they lose their jobs. President Obama's health care reform would provide coverage to 30 million uninsured Americans and begin to wrestle down the rising cost of medical care and future deficits. An author said that Republicans stuck to their script and argued for small solutions, such as letting people buy insurance in other states that might allow skimpier coverage. Their plans would cover only three million uninsured over the next decade, a tenth of what the Democrats are proposing which is not enough. An author also argues that President Obama should give up any illusions that he can win Republican support by making a few more changes in bills that already include many Republican ideas since Republican speakers made clear that the only thing they would accept is starting over from scratch. An author belives if the House Democrats voted tomorrow to approve the Senate bill, health care reform would become the law of the land and the president and Speaker Nancy Pelosi should push the House to accept the fundamentally sound Senate bill. Mr. Obama needs to keep explaining to Americans that this health care reform is critical which is to give them security, to hold down costs and ease the strain on federal budgets.

President Obama's health care plan looks good and might be intended for citizens' good but is not working properly. His plans are facing too much opposition and Mr. Obama have adjusted the health care reform several times reflecting Republican's ideas so they might turn to his side. However, Obama's pump-priming policy for creating jobs have failed. According to CNN survey, 3 out of 4 Americans think his economy plan's budget was wasted and 2 out of 3 people said that this plan was aimed for political good and has no practical benefit for US economy. Republican candidate, Scott Brown, have won the late Edward M. Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts by supporting to kill the president's health care plan, reducing taxes, cutting spending and making sure terrorist prisoners never see the inside of a civilian courtroom. In the senate, Republicans won at least four more Democratic seats: in Arkansas, North Dakota, Delaware and Nevada, where Majority Leader Harry Reid is toast. At least three more of the party's seats are tossups: in Illinois, Colorado and Pennsylvania. Democrats are facing at least a half dozen losses in the Senate right now. The political environment is already sending more Democrats into retirement. Heading into this year, House Democrats were looking at potential losses of 20 to 30 seats. Now, some analysts are saying it is possible they could lose their majority.